UPLAND SHOOTING. 
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SPRING SNIPE-SHOOTING 
American Snipe, — Scolopax Wilsoniij —which is commonly 
known in this country as the English Snipe, but which is 
undoubtedly a distinct species, winters, as we have seen, in the 
Southern States, and yet southward of the most southern; being 
rarely found in the winter northward, or in the summer south¬ 
ward, of the Carolinas. 
The great multitude breed far to the northward, not only of 
the United States, but of the British Provinces, in the vast marshy 
tracts which extend inland nearly to the Arctic Ocean. Many, 
however, make their nests and rear their young in the secluded 
morasses of Maine, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick; and a 
few pairs, here and there throughout the Eastern and Middle 
States, becoming less frequent as they advance toward the South, 
so far probably as the north of Pennsylvania. 
In Western Canada, in the neighborhood of Amherstberg, they 
are likewise found during the breeding season, and probably on 
the southern verge of the Great Lakes likewise. 
They are, however, with us, from New Jersey eastward, 
essentially a sprmg and autumn passing visitant; and this is their 
character so far northward as Quebec. In New Brunswick and 
